Troy man sentenced for shooting neighbor in the face

A 74-year-old Troy man convicted of assault with intent to murder after his neighbor was shot in the face has been sentenced to 51 months to 20 years in prison.

David George Keats was sentenced Wednesday by Oakland County Circuit Judge James Alexander. He was also sentenced to two additional years in prison for the use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

Keats was accused of shooting his neighbor, John Scislowicz, in the face after Scislowicz yelled at Keats' barking dogs and kicked a fence. Authorities said he fired four shots in total but only struck Scislowicz once. That shot entered the lower portion of Scislowicz's face but missed all vital organs.

The incident occurred Aug. 17 on Atlas Drive, where both men lived.

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Alexander told Keats that he "took 74 years of good and flushed that down the sewer."

Keats told Alexander that Scislowicz "conducted a reign of terror against me and the dog."